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Shimmy shimmy shimmy like my sister Kate : looking at the Harlem Renaissance through poems

Title
Shimmy shimmy shimmy like my sister Kate : looking at the Harlem Renaissance through poems / [edited by] Nikki Giovanni.
Publication
New York : H. Holt, 1996.
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Additional Authors
  • Giovanni, Nikki.
  • Schomburg Children's Collection.
Description
xii, 186 p.; 22 cm.
Summary
Includes poems by such authors as Paul Laurence Dunbar, Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Amiri Baraka, with commentary and a discussion of the development of African American arts known as the Harlem Renaissance.
Subject
  • Young adult poetry, American > African American authors
  • American poetry > African American authors > History and criticism
  • American poetry > 20th century > History and criticism
  • American poetry > 20th century
  • African Americans in literature
  • African Americans > Poetry
  • Harlem Renaissance
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
W.E.B. Du Bois -- James Weldon Johnson -- Paul Laurence Dunbar -- Claude McKay -- Melvin B. Tolson -- Langston Hughes -- Arna Bontemps -- Countee Cullen -- Helene Johnson -- Waring Cuney -- Richard Wright -- Robert Hayden -- Margaret Walker -- Samuel Allen -- Gwendolyn Brooks -- Lance Jeffers -- LeRoi Jones / Amiri Baraka -- Sonia Sanchez -- Ishmael Reed -- James Randall, Jr. -- Nikki Giovanni -- Carolyn M. Rodgers -- Ntozake Shange.
Call Number
Sc D 03-1775
ISBN
0805034943
LCCN
95038617
OCLC
33103116
Title
Shimmy shimmy shimmy like my sister Kate : looking at the Harlem Renaissance through poems / [edited by] Nikki Giovanni.
Imprint
New York : H. Holt, 1996.
Edition
1st ed.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Local Subject
Black author.
Added Author
Giovanni, Nikki.
Schomburg Children's Collection.
Research Call Number
Sc D 03-1775
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